me-own

Gullah

Alternative forms

  • me'own, meown

Etymology

From Gullah me + own.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.on/

Determiner

me-own

  1. (emphatic) my

Pronoun

me-own

  1. (possessive pronoun) mine

Inflection

Gullah Geechee personal pronouns
Number singular plural
puss'n subject object-oblique subject object-oblique
fus Uh,
A1 		me we
sekint yuh, ya1 oonuh, oona1
tud e,
i1 		um dey dem

1 alternate spelling


References

  • Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)
  • Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)
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